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DESCRIPTION:Tuesday, May 31st – 7 PM  How Do We Uproot the System and Build a Better 
 World?  An Evening of Ideas and Inspiration with contributors to Globalize 
 Liberation: How to Uproot the System and Better World   Featuring:  Marina 
 Sitrin, Elizabeth "Betita" Martinez, Patrick Reinsborough, Ramsey Kanaan, 
 Rachel Neumann, Chris Crass, Jennifer Whitney, and David Solnit  MARINA 
 SITRIN is the editor of Horizontalism: Voices of Popular Power in 
 Argentina, an oral account of the recent autonomous social movements in 
 Argentina.  Marina lived in Argentina for parts of the last two years, 
 working closely with Argentine activists to create and distribute the book. 
 Marina is a New York City-based activist, writer, popular educator, lawyer 
 and dreamer. She is a cofounder of the People’s Law Collective and 
 currently works with Woomera, a no borders immigrants rights group.   
 ELIZABETH "BETITA" MARTINEZ is an inspiring and engaging organizer, 
 activist, thinker who has been key to chicana/o, women of color and 
 multiracial stuggles. She was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee 
 organizer during the civil rights movement, a pioneer in the women's 
 liberation movement, and has worked as community organizer in New Mexico 
 and California. cofounded and works with the Institute for MultiRacial 
 Justice and is the author of "500 Years of  Chicano History in Pictures," 
 "Viva La Causa" and "De Colores Means All Of Us."   PATRICK REINSBOROUGH is 
 the cofounder of smaetMeme training and Strategy Project, spent four years 
 as the organizing director of the Rainforest Action Network and is a 
 longtime grassroots organizer, campaigner and media strategist who has 
 worked on issues including forest protection, police brutality, peace in 
 Northern Ireland, indigenous rights, and numerous local and global 
 environmental justice struggles.   RAMSEY KANAAN was a working class 
 community organizer in Scotland who helped initiate and organize the 
 successful Poll Tax Rebellion (which was key in toppling Margaret 
 Thatcher), and is the founder and a collective member of AK Press.   RACHEL 
 NEUMANN is an activist who has worked in Palestine with International 
 Solidarity Movement, the Rights & Liberties editor of AlterNet, a writer, a 
 mother and the editor of "Anti-Capitalism: A Field Guide to the Global 
 Justice Movement."   CHRIS CRASS is an organizer with Catalyst Project, a 
 center for political education and movement Building that focuses on 
 anti-racist strategies based in left/radical leadership development, 
 strengthening grassroots fighting organizations and multiracial alliance 
 building.   JENNIFER WHITNEY is a journalist who has covered the popular 
 rebellions in Bolivia and Argentina and is the co-editor of "We Are 
 Everywhere; the Irresistable Rise of Anti-Capitalism." She is musician 
 (with Infernal Noise Brigade for years), activist, firedancer, health care 
 worker, and organizes clinics and street medic teams for direct actions, 
 often with the Black Cross Health Collective in Portland.   DAVID SOLNIT is 
 the editor of "Globalize Liberation: How to Uproot the System and Build a 
 Better World," both an organizing-inspiration manual and an articulation of 
 the new radicalism (http://www.globalizeliberation.org), which went into 
 second printing after the first six months. David is a puppeteer and 
 co-founder of Art and Revolution, and a longtime activist in direct action, 
 global justice, anti-war, environmental justice and community struggles.  
 He is currently organizing with the People Powered Strategy Project, 
 Courage to Resist and the Popular Education Action CollectivE  (PEACE).   A 
 benefit to reprint and distribute "Horizontalism: Popular Power in 
 Argentina" to social movements in Argentina and Latin America.   The book, 
 "Horizontalism," was printed in Argentina at a re-occupied worker 
 controlled printshop and has been used widely across Argentina and Latin 
 America for popular education about "horizontalidad," the hopefull new 
 radicalism that has emerged in Argentina and across the globe. It is an 
 oral account by on-the-ground activists and thinkers involved in the 
 ongoing popular rebellion that toppled the goverment, forced the 
 non-payment of their IMF debt and has changed day-to-day life for millions 
 of Argentines. The english version will be published in English in the 
 coming year. Horizontalism in Argentina, an article drawn from the book, 
 can be read at: 
 http://www.leftturn.org/Articles/Viewer.aspx?id=447&type=w\n 
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